> > Not sure I'm following, but I will be the first to admit that I'm a
> > git novice. Would this be aided by a convention, like only
> > committing to master on the gentoo official repository, and any
> > on-the-side work on places like github/etc stays in branches?
> > Those repositories would just keep getting fed commits on master
> > from the official repository.
>
> Iagree with this; I think we should ban merge commits on master. That
> would force everyone to rebase their work on current master before
> they commit to master which would make the history clean.

So what's the point of switching to git if you want to ban the main
reason git exists?
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Ciaran McCreesh